You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction and if war is used as an instrument of policy eventually we will have total war.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

Modernity the child of the Enlightenment failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

This society cannot go forward the way we have been going forward where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable it's not morally right it's just not going to happen.

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind men were constrained in the absence of any other form of discipline to turn to discipline of the military type.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

A brain is a society of very small simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together out of that arises a kind of smartness.